Chicago IL Facts, Information and trivia Elevation: Elevation 594 ft (181 m). Population 2,695,598 (2010). Time zone: Central (CST): UTC minus 6 hours. Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5).

Chicago is the only incorporated town in Cook County, Illinois. History of Chicago This marshy area where the Chicago River flowed into Lake Michigan was inhabited around eleven thousand years ago, when the ice sheets retreated north after the end of the last Ice Age leaving the Great Lakes in their wake.

MVPA Route 66. By Dan McCluskey. Convoy Commander. TMC'09 we joined the convoy in Fallon, Nevada and drove on the Lincoln. Registration is open to all current MVPA members and all eras of HMVs. Route 66 Chicago 6000 In order to update your GPS device: Route 66 Chicago 6000 with the latest update, follow next instructions. First of all, be sure you got the update file for your Route 66 Chicago 6000 device, downloaded from SpeedcamUpdates.com.

More recently, the Native American Potawatomi tribe lived in the region and trekked across a short gap or 'continental divide' between the Des Plaines and Chicago Rivers. When the French explorers reached the area in 1673, rowing upstream along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers their native guides showed them the portage point. Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet were the first Europeans to use it. The portage was a muddy slough 8 mi. Long (13 km). La Salle explored the area later and realized its strategic importance and recommended establishing an outpost here. After a war with England, France ceded the territories in the 1750s, and shortly after it became part of the U.S., following its independence from Britain.

The Indians ceded the mouth of the Chicago River to the US by the Treaty of Greenville (1795), in 1803, U.S. Soldiers erected fort Dearborn at the river's mouth, rebuilt it in 1816 (the natives had burned it down during the War of 1812).

In 1818, this territory incorporated into the Union as the state of Illinois. There was trading along the portage, but the roads were terrible. Chicago was platted in 1829 and incorported in 1833. Cook County was created in 1835 and named after Daniel Pope Cook (1794 - 1827) newspaper editor and politician, he was the first Attorney General of Illinois, and later a congressman. Cook County is the second-most populous county in America after Los Angeles County. Skini dlya aimp3 magnitofoni youtube. Dearborn Fort closed in 1837.

The previous year construction began on the Illinois and Michigan Canal, which was completed in 1848. The town grew as a trade crossroads, a hub linking the north, the Mississippi, the Great Lakes and the east Coast. The Railroads in the mid 1800s fueled its growth and made it the gateway to the west. The climate of Chicago is classified as humid continental and has clearly marked seasons with hot and often humid summers, cool and wet springs, mild falls and cold winters. Temperatures: Average high in Jan (winter) 31°F (-0.3°C) and the average low is 17°F (-8.6°C). Average high in Jul (summer) 84°F (29°C), with an average low of 64°F (17.7°C). Precipitation: Rainfall is between 3 and 4.3 (78 and 110 mm) inch per month between April and November, falling to around 1.7 in.